microsoft is taking over the world and the way I know how to get online

Microsoft continues to inundate my computer reactions by trying to take over the world. You can't get online anymore with out their help. Monopoly wielding area of life this computer thing. Just think about it , you cannot access a google search page or yahoo for that matter without the aid of some software made by microsoft.Is this not true?

I mean igoogle or yahoo's version etc all try and do the same thing, who is the best? AOL of course